Bug 114571
Summary: | Anaconda throws exception while kickstart installation via PXE | ||||||
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Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Sven Paas <sven.paas> | ||||
Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Jeremy Katz <katzj> | ||||
Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Mike McLean <mikem> | ||||
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||
Priority: | medium | ||||||
Version: | 9 | ||||||
Target Milestone: | --- | ||||||
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Hardware: | i686 | ||||||
OS: | Linux | ||||||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||
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Last Closed: | 2004-01-30 16:10:44 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
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oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||
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Description
Sven Paas
2004-01-29 17:22:59 UTC
I'm sorry, the platform is of course i686. Please attach the actual dump, I have no data to work from without it. Created attachment 97360 [details]
anacdump.txt
This anaconda's dump to diskette after throwing the exception.
Update: I found the part of the kickstart file that caused the exception: clearpart --all --drives=hda This is obviously wrong, since there is no hda drive on a DELL 2650, but an sda drive. But anaconda shouldn't throw an exception when the kickstart file tries do touch a hard disk that doesnot exist. So it is IMHO still an error that should be fixed. Improving kickstart's error handling is an RFE somewhere. Right now, referencing drives that don't exist is a definite "don't do that" thing. The exceptions are better now than they used to be although distilling them and presenting them in a nice useful form to the user is still to occur. |